US, France, UK prepare air, navy units for sustained assault in Syria

US President Donald Trump’s “major decision” on Syria is contingent on the rallying of sufficient air and naval strength and allied participation. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the only US warship immediately available for the promised US military response to Bashar Assad’s use of chemical weapons in Douma is the guided missile destroyer USS Donald Cook, which sailed from Larnaca Monday, April 9, on its way to the eastern Mediterranean. The USS Iwo Jima strike group, which visited Haifa last month, is now cruising in the Arabian Sea, days away from the scene, whereas the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group only departs the US port for the Middle East on Wednesday, April 11, and is not due in the Mediterranean before next week.

The Trump administration is negotiating with Britain, France and other allies, including Arab governments, for their roles in the Syrian operation. Our Washington sources report that the commander-in-chief is looking at a major operation in Syria, to unfold over several days and lead to a concerted allied assault on the Iranian military presence embedded in that country. This extended goal may give US allies pause.

Trump’s line to UK Prime Minister Theresa May is this: You owe me for supporting you against Russia in the spy poisoning affair; now, back me up in holding Russia and Iran to account for the chemical attack in Syria. Britain maintains an air base in Cyprus. France’s only aircraft carrier, the FS Charles de Gaulle-R 91, is in dock for lengthy repairs. On April 6, 350 French airmen started a joint training exercise aboard the USSGeorge HW Bush in the West Atlantic. Bringing them over would entail complicated, time-consuming coordination between their two headquarters.
Trump has promised to reach a decision on the Syrian operation by Thursday after consulting his security chiefs and allies. What he has in mind is much more than a one-off strike like the Tomahawk assault he ordered on a Syrian air base a year ago to punish the regime for a chemical attack that left 80 civilians dead. This operation is likely to be sustained and continue well into the second half of April.

The coming DEBKA Weekly issue out on Friday, April 13, will study the various aspects of Donald Trump’s coming Syrian venture and the roles assigned to British, French, Israeli and other allies. It will look ahead to the “grave repercussions” threatened by Moscow and Tehran. To sign on for this exceptionally informative and relevant issue of DEBKA Weekly, click here.

o for f–k sake yea assad isnt the greatest guy but hes a heck of a lot better then the rebels who have killed more christians and jews we got to keep out of the middle east the muslims have been killing each other for 1400 years it will not stop pull out and let it burn

The bible says this war will happen, I can’t stop it no one can. Russia could truly be a good work partner but they always take the agitator position to the west. Same as Iran,same as North Korea. I think at this point someone must stop allowing the axis of evil to run loose, they need to feel the power of a united front for the good of the world. Without violence we meaning the world can stop Iran, Russia and North Korea from being able to use the financial system in place for international commerce. This would bring their economies to its knees. In addition if the u.n. Won’t do the right thing defund the U. N. All together. We don’t need to go to a fighting war, but a REAL war of economics. I hope that cooler heads prevail.

LOL…..pathetic…..here come the tripartite fake bullshit peddling war criminals trying to prove their manhood in Syria.

What ever attack they launch, won’t change a damn thing on the ground. The suckers just lost their last little foothold in Damascus and the war is won. They are just miserable losers – and cultures in decline.

Russia :
World leading rate of alcoholism.
World leading rate of abortions.
World leading rate of suicide .
World leading rate of drug addiction.
Highest murder rate in Europe.
Life expectancy at 3rd world levels.
Lowest birthrate in the world.

Hello : @a sudden alarm has been announced for all the units of the Ground Forces, the Military Space Forces and the Air Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. On April 8-9 a large number of warships were brought to sea. @ you never know who of that list is pushing the button , better be a fake list .

Absolutely true, Hello ! The World Health Organisation already stated, that the Russian ethnicity
as such, is already dying out. In other words – more people are dying (and emigrating,) than there are born – steadily, and for a number of years now !

It looked like pallywood to me. First order of affairs would be to shut the front door and confitm it actually occured. Then without notice or bravado strike. But no proof and attack might be a disaster. On the other hand attacking Iranian interests is always a good thing.

Everything looks really crazy . Just one thing Americans stupids need to prepare themselves to a destruction of NY and even maybe Washington . They will get a hero welcome in Paris and London , when those will be obliterated . I already prepared my button …

In that case why is Russia begging the USA not to attack,Why is Russia trying to stall the response by asking to have the OPCW back in Syria ,you are scared shitless,We can all see how weak Russia really is,You wont even get your missiles off the ground.PS How is the Russian stock market doing.

The Western world are the guilty ones here, they are in the wrong, and have absolutely no moral or legal backing whatsoever in Syria. These people are putrid scum. Self-righteous, self absorbed putrid scum that suffer from “exceptionalism” and want to squat, steal and racketeer Syrian resources. Is it any wonder why Israelis are part of this mob?

They are just angry they lost the Syria war and got busted red handed screwing around with Jihadi buttboys. So what are they going to do? Make even greater fools of themselves! Sore losers.

This is how empires die. They do really debased acts with a big smile on their faces, claiming to be all moral. In reality, they are losing legitimacy in the eyes of the world of awakened people. The psyops is garbage. Anybody supporting these vile animals is part of the problem.

Babylon – Iran’s interest in Syria is to assert Shi’a dominance and secure a route for an oil pipeline to Europe. Your tunnel vision against the perceived crimes of one half have blinded you to the matching ambitions of the other half. Think Iran has lofty, morally superior goals?

According to the founding father of Zionism Theodore Herzl, “the area of the Jewish State stretches: “From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.” According to Rabbi Fischmann, “The Promised Land extends from the River of Egypt up to the Euphrates, it includes parts of Syria and Lebanon.”

This is the The Infamous “Oded Yinon Plan”

For this to occur Syria must be removed as a threat before the war with Iran. I’m sure we all remember Wesley Clark statement on the planned to destroy 7 countries in 5 years after 9/11.

Feck that! This is not what Trump was elected for. If people wanted more stupid warmongering, they could have stayed with Clinton. How can anybody believe this hamfisted ISIS propaganda? I am so disgusted. Looks like the swamp has gotten to Trump finally.

The West has thrown the mask off its face for the morally depraved animals that are running the show. How does it feel to be on the same team as Satan and ISIS?

The world stands with Russia, Iran and Syria against these outrageous false flag attacks. I trust Putin, Assad and Rouhani any day than the devils in the White House doing lines of coke and screwing little boys.

This chemical weapons crap is utterly pathetic drivel. Only stupid fools would buy into this. And there are lots of those on this forum.

The Israeli gangsters came out and said Assad has chemical weapons! Hahahahah. Take a look at this mob of sorry ass losers that need to lie through their teeth. Because that’s what winning sounds like, right Shlomo!? You got to lie, steal and bully others to feel good. Maybe you lack morals and decency, you mob of Zionists. Maybe, you are the problem with peace?

These paid Jew-haters are getting even more “resourceful” – in their numb sculls they “think”, that under
a Jewish name, like Shlomo, they may appear more credible. To fellow low-life scum they may be…

Go cozy up to Iran, I am sure they will offer freedoms and security to all when they take over the Middle East…. Let me know how they treat you after you wave them in with all the tired anti-Western rhetoric.

Shlomo Shekelstein you are obviously an ISIS supporter yourself and besides residing in a cave underground thinking that Virgins await your type is comical how stupid gullible and ridiculous are your tribes! Get lost pests! G-d blesses all the other good people on this planet especially EU UK USA Israel and friends too.

Incorrect on every aspect debka has zero intelligence contacts in the USA and UK,You are not even guessing you are making it up,You know nothing about our capability’s other than what you have read in the press,as for what Trump said to May that is total fiction,

this time russia and your friend you will be the big loser you will be crushed .it will be definitvely the end of the russia army myth.
you, the killers of old people WOMEN And children you will pay the big. POUTINE, ASSAD ,ROUHANI , NASSARALLA
YOU WILL BE ARRESTED AND PUT IN JAIL !!!!!!!!

LOL…says the people who support Jaysh al Islam, ISIS, Al Nusra, FSA and the Zinki Boys.

Listening to the Anglo Zionists moralize their way out of this little shit show is like watching a turd fall down.

Spare us the crocodile tears about Syrians OK? You people do not care about Syrians if you supported vile terrorists on captagon in their country for the past 7 years. You people are absolutely disgusting.

So, the king of the South of the Last Days seems to be about to finally make his grand move (push, to be exact, as per Dan. 11:40) in the ancient territory of the Seluecid kings. That will be the beginning of the end as we know it.

I think the gas attack was a false flag, but if they push iran out of syria and cramp russia’s style that will be good thing. This is serious opposition to iran, syria, russia “plans” for area and especially what they likely have in store for Israel. I think Trump is worried that if they leave Israel to take on all these guys – it will get out of hand and move to WMD level fairly quickly if they all pile on at once…might end up like that anyway. Certainly hope not.

patriot: @Russian strategic forces regularly conduct exercises that mimic the imposition of nuclear strikes on the United States. This was announced on March 15 by the head of the Pacific Command of the US Armed Forces, Admiral Harry Harris.@

Oh My what were we thinking when we sold all our ICBMs, B-52’s and SLBMs …. Wait we didn’t … Oh and we also have the worlds most advanced launch detection…. Putin didn’t forget this like you apparently have, so he may order exercises but he won’t go near that button unless he is ready to end everything. MAD is still nuke policy and that won’t change.

Right now the world needs a mini war between nuclear states for the hot headed goons to calm down and senses prevail. Humans have created highly capable killing machines and sophisticated toys of war in such away that everyone is itching to use them. I just hope that when the flames start, all TV stations and NEWS channels like DEBKA will be able to take the footages live to our sitting rooms. Good luck to all of us commenting on this forum.

The democratic country will settle the dictators. Whether they are leftist or theocratic right. Their regimes can not do anything against the countries of FREEDOM they are losers in every aspect. In terms of social, economic and military life 🙂 Go to the devil or your God if you prefer … we will help you to do it quickly.

But yes, its very disappointing how the West is behaving. It is trampling on every single virtue that made it great in the first place. The founding fathers in America warned about this. But do Americans pay attention to the wisdom of their roots? I’m not even American and I pay more attention to these things than most Americans, who have been brainwashed by Hollywood and the depraved political class, and imperialistic war racket.

Goethe… Not one of my favorites (to put it mildly) but even a broken clock gets it right twice a day…

Abandon the fundamental concept of G-d and the divinely inspired (i.e NOT human!) morals and mores that have always formed the basis of societal structure and progress, and the rest is predictable. The unfortunate and frightening results are now in plain sight and there’s no telling what will occur, although truth be told, it’s all been long prophesied…

It would be nice to know wtf is going on here and why – regardless of whose side anyone is on.

First off, the chemical attack looks concocted. Even if it were true, the US has avoided responding before, so why now?

Clearly the US is bent on a major attack in Syria. Why? Presumably, it wants to send a powerful warning to Syria, Russia, and Iran. But what exactly? Why should anything stop them? Even if attacks cause damage, that hasn’t deterred anyone so far.

It could of course be that the US – or rather Trump – is doing Israel’s bidding here, and the main target – and main warning is for – Iran. Trump has done a lot so far to repay his pro-Israeli donors. This could be a gesture to satisfy them rather than any serious attempt to influence the war in Syria.

Whatever, it would be nice to know what is really going on. Trump is not a guy who gives a shit about humanitarian rights.

I hope this happens. Assad needs punishment, the Iranian need to go back home, Hex needs to be defanged. Hit them hard. They will be very reluctant to use chemical weapons again- in fact, this would be a global deterent.

I would be willing to bet my nuts that Assad did not use chemical weapons. And any idiot that believes US lies that they will “punish” Assad for the use of chemical weapons is just that – an idiot. A pretext is all it is.

But you see, these morons are what the Zionists and Americunts rely on to get away with their murder and lies.

Chemical weapons are a fetish of the Western-Zionist establishment. They love them. Where would they be without them? They are just so convenient. They will have to use some other bullshit as the pretext. Here is a drumroll of their most recent shit shows.

– Iraq “WMDs”
– Salisbury Novichok
– Khan Shaykun
– Douma

Reality in the world is ugly. Much uglier than the black and white world Hollyweird presents. The “good guys” are quite often evil behind the scenes. The fools who buy these stories are pawns in the game. And pawns are many.

Chutzpah – look in the mirror and you will see another “turd falling down” ! But it is just a mirror image,
so you cannot eat it ! Be patient – your scheduled delivery of choice Gaza liquid s^*t was delayed – due to increased local demand.

Gotta love it when Zionists pretend they care about Syrians all of a sudden.

I notice how you “care” about Syrians when ever your terrorists and intel agents are about to get their asses handed to them by the SAA! Yeah, but dumb asses like yourself can’t notice these details too well.

@chutzpah lol who told this idiot/donkey we care about syrians…the syrians/russians created isis now all we want is to teach the russians/iranians that they are only allowed to wiggle their tail whenwe order them to.

The fact remains that a concerted active and long lasting attack by the US, UK, French and hopefully others is more about Israel than Syria. Syria is merely the stage for both the Russians and Iranians. Ultimately, the existential risk is only to Israel and the destruction of Syrian infrastructure built up by Russia and Iran needs to be destroyed. This by no means indicates that the threat to Israel is resolved – it will never be resolved! what it means is that Israel gets breathing room for a period of time until the Iranians and Russians build up the infrastructure once more, and will need to be destroyed at a later time.

What a stream of drivel these comments have been. A man that speaks foul language has a foul heart.
Any wise man knows full well that all sides of this war are bloody sinners and that the Lord simply punishes one nation after another in turn.

This is enough ALL those who can go from the dictatorial countries w and by pure combination come to the NATO countries, even if you have put the wall before and now check the borders, but let loose those four idiots who govern you, go west 🙂

I really do not care if the US goes to war against Syria or not – it is a lose-lose situation. There are no good guys in the entire Islamist world – they all stink – they all hate each other and hate us according to their books.

They all want conquest, war, terrorism, death to everyone and that fact has always been true since Islam’s inception.

Let’s just admit to a simple truth – we only benefit when we support Christians, Jews and other non-jihadists in the region.

Support Israel and help make it the strongest country in the region to defend itself or choose to take out threats anywhere in the region.

The US is not responsible for the welfare of people who refuse to modify their belief system to make it more like our own western cultures. Islam is anti-democratic, anti-semitic and anti-freedom.

“who refuse to modify their belief system to make it more like our own western cultures”

There is the problem. I told you that YOU people who believe such drivel cannot coexist in peace.

You are diseased by American/Western “exceptionalism”. The “Christian-Judeo” world has been obsessing with the Middle East and has been pillaging, raping and meddling in their lands for the past hundred years. Are you people that idiotic to not expect people to get angry and fight back when this goes on in their backyards? I guess you have never lived outside your pampered bubble to understand.

What a moronic short sighted worldview. Just imagine, people like you are in command of entire nations and militaries. No wonder why we are seeing such awful results.

You need to find peace without resource racketeering and ego tripping before you are ready to evolve to the next stage. America is NOT ready for this yet.

We are normally exceptional in that we are human and not jihadists who believe that: Thou Shalt Kill.

That is what separates the savage from the civilized man.

I do not think we should contribute nor save people who want us and our western way of life ended.

Call me western-centric. I call you a barbarian who is looking for sympathy and handouts from those you want to kill. Some of you live in western society which is really weird because you enjoy all the benefits of the same free society you want to destroy and replace with fascism, communism, Islamism and anarchism.

Chutzpah: You go live with the killers; I choose to live among those who defend against the killers. If you say we ought to save people who bring about our our destruction then there is no hope for you. Your kind will always gravitate towards the lowest form of morality and support the worst forms of totalitarianism. You will become death and death for yourself, your family and your community will always be your preferred choice in life.

LOL you people are paranoid. Do you also check regularly under your bed for communists?

The West is what, like barely 1 billion people? Not even that. The world is approaching 8 billion. You think that imposing one lifestyle on everybody else is the way to go?

I find it fascinating that you think just because I’m criticizing the West, that I am automatically from the Islamism/Communism/Fascism/[insert “ism” here]-camp. Do you even understand what you are implying? “Critical thinking”, “reason” and “Logic” last time I checked were Enlightenment era virtues.

Apparently you don’t want to use critical thinking, or perhaps you have none, to look at all the shitty results we are seeing done by the “Western” world? Perhaps you don’t want to admit that something stinks and something is not right? Perhaps you cannot extricate yourself from the bubble to take a good look at what the hell is really going on.

So you want to embrace people who are at war with civilization? How long will you last with that moonbat idea? Great civilizations come and go but none last too long when they stop defending their land and people. You rely on others to do that for you today (as you spout nonsense about looking after your enemy) but some, like Israel, rely on a small population to defend their people, their culture, their religion and their modern society from a barbaric group of people who believe in hate, destruction and destroying all around them because they think they are supreme and that you must be their inferior dhimmi or dead.

I am referring to western ways of thinking derived from Jewish and Christian antecedents. I consider Israel to be in the western category. The western way of life is worth defending despite the supporters of jihad in this forum.

I do not mind anyone who enjoys his/her culture in peace and who does not seek my destruction. Islam does not fit into that category and by their own decrees have made the “infidel,” which include everyone, their perpetual enemies – and yet you support their goals and their methods. What does that make you creepy Chutzpah who is an obsequious Islamophile?

The guy @The US is not responsible for the welfare of people who refuse to modify their belief system to make it more like our own western cultures. Islam is anti-democratic, anti-semitic and anti-freedom.@ so, if Russian children do not shoot each other at schools (almost never) with guns like USA is used to live – it’s because they are in a retarded system ?

Broad sweeping statements and comments don’t sway or convince any person who can read write and are able to tie up their shoelaces. The USA happens to lead the world from people who arrived from every corner of the planet to build this wonderful country. In other words, the voice of the US is, in fact, the voice of all people of the world. Notice I improved your IQ by 5%. 🙂

From its inception, we observe that the Muslim countries that gave birth to scientists who have won the Nobel Prize are less than the fingers of one hand: Algeria with Claude Cohen Tannuchi (Physics), naturalized in France; Egypt with Ahemed Zewail (Physics) national in U.S.A, Pakistan with Abdus Salam (Physics) national in the United Kingdom. They are all scientists who, while maintaining their Muslim faith, even if in a secular sense, have developed their studies and their research in the West.

We have the problem in the West of foreign “scholars” getting great jobs in western universities, hospitals and institutions with fake credentials from degree mills and with falsified documents. Some Western universities think that it is politically incorrect to do proper background checks and to ascertain if the professional degrees are legitimate.

That the US does not have adequate naval forces in the Mediterranean ready to go on short notice seems like more evidence of the general incompetence of the Trump Administration. They have had a year at least to plan for this contingency

“The general incompetence of the Trump Administration” ?! I’m sure it must have occurred to you that President Trump is desperately attempting to turn around the colossal catastrophe Imam Barack “bathhouse Barry” Hussein Ubuma left him after years of deliberately sabotaging and destabilizing the region (managed the same in the US as well…). Subsequent to the 13th Imams disastrous tenure at the helm of the good ‘Ole US of A, the Middle East is now a runaway train, a seething cauldron of 7th Century Islamic barbarism threatening to consume both itself and the rest of the world.

PRAY that SOMEONE 😉 be able to turn things around; it won’t be pretty otherwise. Anywhere…

World war 3 started 26 years ago it’s called ” the war on terrorism ” . Christianity is being eradicated. Partly due to inaction. Partly due to resetellment of populations. Partly due to liberalism. Europe and it’s way of life is being erased. Asian countries such as India, China, mainmar, etc.. are facing large growth of this radical elements inside their own countrys. Turkey, Iran, north east Africa, Pakistan are resettling their populations across the glob. Why are the governments around the world putting up such a farce? What can I as an individual do to prevent the radicals from destroying our way of life? Is there someone who shares my fears?

The most guilty party in all of this is Obama. Obama set red lines and then ignored them. He let Russian move at will and whilst Russia could have probably sorted Syria, Obama then emboldened Iran who are now the major problem.
Without Iran in Syria, Assad would have been kept on a tighter reign and the situation would’ve been more simple. Hizbollah wouldn’t have been armed to the teeth and would’ve gone back to Lebanon upon Russian orders.
Obama has made a pile of this and the world still thinks the sun still shines out of Obama ass.